Dell 5150 Dual Core 2.8GHz inc 19" LCD Monitor & Free Printer £429 (merged)

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rogerramjet

I have a serial for XP Home and a disc and serial for XP MCE which i paid the extra £5 to get.

So just format both machines and install the other operating system?

Anybody know which drivers i would need to download from Dell for the 5150?

Whirly

Um, does XP Home allow dual CPU's? I've got this odd memory telling me it is single processor only.

I personally thought that was the reason they bundled the PC with MCE rather than Home in the first place.

XP Hpme = 1 CPU
XP Pro = multiple CPU's
XP MCE is XP Pro with some bits removed/added therefore allows multiple CPU's.

Did a quick search and got this:

"[It does not allow SMP (multi-processors) but...]Windows XP Home Edition does, however, support the Hyper-threading functionality present on some Intel microprocessors. Although it has been reported to work on some dual-core microprocessors available from both AMD and Intel, Microsoft has recommended upgrading to Professional Edition for improved stability and compatibility."

mpazza

Dual CPU's! Not impressed so far with my 5150 - when playing audio files from my hard drive with windows media player the music stutters badly when I open other applications or dial up the internet for example. Anyone else have this trouble? Is it that the hard drive is not up to it? I have the 80Gb one, what is the cache on this?

biglugs

I have a 5100 with the 250GB HDD and I don't have any trouble playing music from WMP, browsing the web and using Word/Excel all at the same time. Sounds like a hard disk problem to me.

buggu

It may also be a problem with the ram if your having problems opening programs or going onto the internet, that would slow things down if it was faulty.

tunesurfer

Any more ecodes - as none of these work for me today.

borgs

tunesurfer wrote:

Any more ecodes - as none of these work for me today.

Your best bet might be to visit https://www.dmxdimension.com each day. At the moment the 5150 deal is not very good as it is now £499 and with only half a gig of RAM. They've also downgraded the OS from media center to XP Home.

Edit: Hang on, I thought XP Home didn't support two processors???

scottgreenwood

borgs wrote:

Your best bet might be to visit https://www.dmxdimension.com each day. At the moment the 5150 deal is not very good as it is now £499 and with only half a gig of RAM. They've also downgraded the OS from media center to XP Home.

Edit: Hang on, I thought XP Home didn't support two processors???

As previously stated, xp home is a simplified xp proffesional. I can assure you that it does support dual cores as I own a 5150!! (with 7900gt sweet!!)

MVC

XP Home supports a single CPU (dual core or single core).
XP Pro supports two (or more) physical CPUs.

Hope this helps.

borgs

Cheers.

I was looking at a web site about the differences - it was obviously written before dual core processors. Thanks for clearing that up.